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onethatcares

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5. we have two of them

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 07:21 AM

Apr 2019

or actually, we have two red headed woodpeckers that visit and eat the suet blocks, along with a cardinal couple, 8 blue jays, a bunch of sparrows/wrens/little birds I can't find in the book of birds, occasional robins, magpies and 8 or 9 squirrels at any given time.

We had a pileated woodpecker visit and bathe in the beginning of the season, but he's not been back. They are huge.

This is life in the city one block away from a busy thoroughfare.

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Might be having new neighbors, a nice young couple [View all] UTUSN Apr 2019 OP

We have these guys 'n' dolls eating at our feeder. They hang on the edge, grab goodies, sprinkleeninow Apr 2019 #1

Yea, they really do go at it! Over the years I have been scarified by the pecking/drilling UTUSN Apr 2019 #2

My mom-in-law used to get terrorized by a Catbird when she sprinkleeninow Apr 2019 #3

In the spring the male woodpeckers claim territory by their drumming csziggy Apr 2019 #7

THAT BIRD THINK HE IS ALL THAT Skittles Apr 2019 #4

we have two of them onethatcares Apr 2019 #5

looks like a red bellied (NT) The Wizard Apr 2019 #6